Wheel.



UNITED AT i i HENRY L. FERRIS. or HARVARDQILLINOIs, ASSIGNORrTO HU T, HELM,

I segment of the tire, and the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.. i

Referring to the drawings, A is a hub castreams & COMPANY, OF ILLINOIS.

shall have certain advantages" which will appear more fully and'at large inthe course of this specification.

To this end my invention consists in the novel features which are shown in'the accompany'ing drawings as embodied in my preferred form of construction.

In the aforesaid drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation oil'j ny improved wheel. Fig. 2 is a perspective view'of one of the spokes and a Fig. 3 is a section in with a plurality of radial sockets in which are inserted suitable round wooden spokes B.

0 indicates a suitable tire, the same being T-shaped in cross-section and having a cylindrical, tread c and an inwardly-extendingfiange or rib c at right angles to the axis of the hub. This inwardly-extending flange or rib c is cast with a series of laterally-project ing semicyhndrical yokes 0, adapted to receive the ends of the spokes B, .the ends of i said spokes being held in position by yokestrength is necessary.

shapedplates D, riveted to the flange c by rivets d, as illustrated. g

It will be noted that-this construction is extremely cheap and simple and that the same is particularly desirable for use in toy wagons and the like, where more or less I Irealizethat considerable variation is possible in the details of this construction w thout departing from thespirit of.1ny-1nven-.

tion, and I do not, therefore, intend to limit Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed February 7, 1905 Serial No. 244,540.

HARVARD, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION 01? WHEEL-u Patented March 20, 1.906.

myself to the specific iorin herein shown and described.

I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent v v 1. In a device of the class described, the

combination with a hub having a plurality of radial cavities, of a plurality of radialspokes, the inner ends of which are-inserted iirsaid cavities, a tire, 'T-sh'aped incross-section and having a tread, and ,an inWardIy eXtending central rib, yokes formed in said rib, and a plurality of y0ke-shaped plates riveted. to

said rib and with the yokes therein embracing the outer ends of the spokes.

, 2.111 a device of the class described, the

radial cylindrical cavities,oi a plurality of radial cylindrical spokes, the inner endsof which are inserted in said cavities, a tire T- shaped in cross-section and having a cylindrical'tread, and an inwardly-extending central rib, semicylindrical yokes formed in said inwardly-extending rib, and a plurality of yoke-shaped plates riveted to said rib, and

with the yokes therein embracing the outer ends of the spokes. 1

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a hub having a pluralit of radial cavities, of apluralityof radial spo es, the inner ends of which are inserted in said cavities, a tire T-shaped in crosssection and having a suitable trend, and an inwardly-extending central rib, yokes on one side of said rib, and a plurality of yoke-shaped plates riv- 'eted to said rib and with the yokes embracing the outer ends of the spokes.

6o combination. with a hub having a plurality of i In witness whercofl have signed the above 7 application lior Letters Patent at Harvard,

in the county of McI-Ienry and State of Illi-. .nois, this 31st day of January, A. D. 1905.

' HENRY L. FERRIS.

Witnesses".-

Enw. G. RAcn, ..OL*E. PETERS. 

